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I’m grieving the realization that the independent future people imagined for me wasn’t based on my actual support needs. It was based on what they could see, what they wanted to believe, and what systems are willing to recognize.

I entered nursing home care because I needed to get out of an unsafe situation quickly. But the crisis also forced me to face a bigger truth: I may need full-time long-term care, even if a nursing home isn’t the right setting forever.

Why I moved my Linux workflow from a Raspberry Pi to openSUSE on WSL, and why reliability, reachability, and lower cognitive load matter more than theoretical elegance.

A practical breakdown of the VoIP and messaging options I tried as a blind, desktop-first user with coordination, fatigue, and cognitive disabilities, and why I ultimately chose Google Voice with a second number.

Being seen as highly verbal and good at writing made people assume language was easy for me. It wasn’t. This piece is about the hidden labor behind producing words, the harm that assumption caused, and why AI can be language access rather than thought replacement.

Text-first and keyboard-first interfaces aren’t outdated for many multiply disabled users. They’re access. This post argues for terminal-like transparency, desktop-like discoverability, and AI that can turn messy intent into action.

Autonomous agents promise to be powerful assistive tools for disabled people, but their usage-based token models can quickly become financially unsustainable for those on fixed incomes. This article explores the “context window tax” that arises from the architecture of these systems and discusses the trade-offs of shifting to flat-rate consumer subscriptions as a more predictable alternative.

A personal look at how AI tools serve as a cognitive prosthetic for a multiply disabled user who relies on a custom stack of Pieces, Supermemory, Hermes Agent, and GitHub Copilot to function at baseline.

When you’re multiply disabled, conservative Christian, and an AI enthusiast, every community rejects part of your identity. No single space accepts the whole stack, so I’m building the infrastructure myself.

The common assumption is that multiple disabilities are additive: two disabilities means twice the difficulty. This is wrong. Disabilities compound multiplicatively, and accessibility design that ignores this causes active harm.

A personal exploration of how severe Topographical Agnosia shaped my transition from the visual chaos of frontend development to the semantic stability of the CLI and backend logic.

A personal look at the “accessibility tax” and why multiply-disabled users are forced to build fragmented, fragile tech stacks just to function.